I was wondering what sort of distros are currently being used by the various goverment instatutions here in the U.S. First is Nasa's Flight Linux
http://flightlinux.gsfc.nasa.gov/ . Pretty cool stuff. Next is one i later stumbled upon, Integrated Biometrics for Handheld and Mobile Devices running linux ,
http://www.dtic.mil/matris/sbir/sbir043/sbir135.html. Searching for more cool goverment linux projects ive found The Joint Conflict and Tactical Simulation (JCATS) program, that runs on Red Hat Linux 9 or Enterprise Linux 3 (Update 2) and is programmed in C++. WoW..cool i say more info at
http://www.jfcom.mil/about/fact_jcats.htm . So what im trying to show is that there are some really cool things happening with this Operating System we all love so much..